If there's one particularly clear lesson to be learned from the classic movie "A Christmas Story," it's that you shouldn't lick metal poles when it's below freezing -- even if it is on a triple-dog dare.

One 10-year-old Indiana boy evidently hadn't seen the film (or hadn't heeded its warning) when he was provoked by a friend to do just that earlier this week. The same outcome resulted, with his tongue becoming adhered to the pole.

By the time an ambulance came to the scene, he had been able to tear his bleeding tongue off of the pole, and medics explained to the boy's mother how he should take care of the injury. "You'd think everybody in the country had seen 'A Christmas Story' by now," said a police officer at the scene.